The climate can be a shock to non-natives and those from warmer areas of the country. Winter is long. Snow is possible from early October to Mother’s Day. Syracuse routinely wins The Golden Snowball Contest.
Days of below zero degrees Fahrenheit temperatures are included in winter.
The suburbs north of Liverpool (Baldwinsville, Cicero, Phoenix, Fulton, Brewerton,Central Square, Etc.) are prone to lake effect snowfall-looks like a blizzard. Being snowed in is a distinct possibility.
If you were born and raised there you don’t know any better and accept the climate as “normal”. Moving there from warmer parts of the country will be a shock.
Then there are the property taxes, state income taxes,anti- gun gun laws, salt on the roads to melt ice and rust your car.
In Utica, i remember one year in the 80s it showed in July.
In Utica, I remember one year in the 80s it snowed in July.